Carles Trepat (born 1960) is a Spanish
classical guitarist
This is a list of classical guitarists.
Baroque (17th and 18th centuries)
19th century
20th century
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See also
* List of flamenco guitarists
References
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. He has won several international prizes, including the "Premio Tárrega" in the "Certamen Internacional Francisco Tárrega de Benicàssim". In July 2014, he was awarded with the "Honorific Prize José Tomás" in
Petrer
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Petrer joins together with the city of Elda to form a conurbation with ...
.
Trepat was born in
Lérida
Lleida (, ; Spanish: Lérida ) is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida.
Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It is also the capital city of the Segrià comarca, as ...
(Spain) in 1960, where he started studying guitar when he was thirteen with Jordi Montagut. In 1976, he attended the last classical guitar course given by
Emilio Pujol
Emilio Pujol Vilarrubí (or ''Emili''; 10 September 1886 – 21 November 1980) was a Spanish composer, guitarist and a leading teacher of the classical guitar.
Biography
Emili Pujol was born in the little village of Granadella just outside Lle ...
who was a student of
Francisco Tárrega
Francisco de Asís Tárrega Eixea (21 November 185215 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe and ''Recuerdos de la Alhambra''. He is often called ...
. Some of his other teachers were
José Tomás
José Tomás Pérez Sellés (26 August 1934, in Alicante – 7 August 2001) was a Spanish classical guitarist and teacher. Considered a major influence on the evolution of classical guitar technique in the second half of the 20th century, he train ...
,
Alberto Ponce,
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza (5 January 1903 – 5 December 1982) was a Spanish composer. Born in Burgos, he was brother of Regino Sainz de la Maza. Composing for the classical guitar, some of his notable works include the suite ''Platero y yo'' for ...
and
Rafael Andia.
Trepat was an assistant professor of
José Tomás
José Tomás Pérez Sellés (26 August 1934, in Alicante – 7 August 2001) was a Spanish classical guitarist and teacher. Considered a major influence on the evolution of classical guitar technique in the second half of the 20th century, he train ...
and he usually plays with historical guitars made by luthiers like
Antonio Torres,
Joseph Pagés, Santos Hernández, Hermanos Conde or modern guitars build by José Luis Romanillos and Daniel Bernaert. Some of his latest performances were given with real gut and silk strings on his 1892
Antonio Torres guitar.
He is credited for discovering and playing music of
Miguel García -Padre Basilio-, who was
Dionisio Aguado Dionisio, a variant of Dionysius, may refer to:
People Given name
* Dionisio Lazzari (1617-1689), Italian sculptor and architect
* Dionisio Aguado y García (1784-1849), Spanish classical guitarist and composer
* Papa Isio (1846-1911), Dionisio Ma ...
's teacher.
Some of his CD recordings include music by
Federico Mompou
Frederic Mompou Dencausse (; alternatively Federico Mompou; 16 April 189330 June 1987) was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. He is remembered for his solo piano music and songs.
Life
Early years
Mompou was born in Barcelona to the ...
,
Manuel Quiroga
Manuel López-Quiroga Miquel (January 30, 1899 – December 13, 1988), better known as Maestro Quiroga, was a Spanish composer especially known for his '' coplas'', ''cuplés'', and ''zarzuelas''. He was also a pianist and one of the group of ...
,
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...
,
Enrique Granados
Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados y Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly known as Enric Granados in Catalan or Enrique Granados in Spanish, was a composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Catalonia, Spain. ...
,
Francisco Tárrega
Francisco de Asís Tárrega Eixea (21 November 185215 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe and ''Recuerdos de la Alhambra''. He is often called ...
,
Julián Arcas
Julián Arcas (25 October 1832 – 16 February 1882) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer, who influenced Francisco Tárrega and Antonio de Torres. He was "one of the most important figures in Spanish music in the 19th century".
Biogra ...
,
Antonio José and
Miguel Llobet
Miguel Llobet Solés (18 October 187822 February 1938) was a classical guitarist, born in Barcelona, Spain. Llobet was a renowned virtuoso who toured Europe and America extensively. He made well known arrangements of Catalan folk songs for the ...
among others.
Discography
* ''"Música espanyola per a guitarra"'' CD, La mà de guido, 1995
* ''"Llora la Guitarra"'' Maestro Quiroga/Carles Trepat CD, Nuevos Medios, 1999
* ''"El Romancero Gitano i 10 Cançons Tradicionals"'' Carles Trepat, Jordi Casas Bayer Cor De Cambra Del Palau De La Musica Catalana CD, Discmedi, 1999
* ''"Carles Trepat interpreta Frederic Mompou"'' CD ,ZANFONIA, 2000
* ''"El Albaicín"'' CD, Nuevos Medios, 2007
* ''"Boccherini: La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid"'' Cuarteto Casals, Carles Trepat ,Eckart Runge. CD Harmonia Mundi 2011
* ''"Granados-LLobet: ...100 anys d'un viatge"'' Carles Trepat. 2015
* ''"Quiroga. Versiones a la guitarra de la copla por Carles Trepat"'' Double CD, EMEC, 2015
References
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Spanish classical guitarists
Spanish male guitarists
1960 births
Living people
People from Lleida